Councillors
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‘We’re forcing people
into the program’: Hubley
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Kanata councillors Allan Hubley (South) and Marianne Wilkinson (North) are split on the issue of biweekly garbage pickup.
Hubley said he would vote against the proposed
change unless residents in his area directed him otherwise, while Wilkinson said she’s in favour.
“A lot of it is just change,” said Wilkinson. “We have
to look at what is the most effective way to deal with
waste. I’ve had people who were opposed to it (the
green bin) at first but have come back to me and said
its working really, really well.”
Hubley said the majority of residents who have contacted him are not in favour of moving to a two-week
garbage pickup.
“A lot of people in Kanata compost,” he said. “They
use that compost for gardens, lawns. People tend to be
very practical in Kanata. The message I heard loud
and clear – why should we pay the city money to take
away perfectly good compost?”
The city’s environment committee is set to vote on
the change on April 11, with council voting on April 13.
Green bins would be picked up every week, along with
recycling, which would alternate between glass, aluminum and plastics, and fibers, paper and cardboard. Left
over garbage would be picked up every two weeks.
“We’re forcing people into the program and I don’t
think it’s mature enough,” said Hubley.

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Jack MacLaren will represent the
Progressive Conservatives in Carleton-Mississippi Mills in the Oct. 6
provincial election.
MacLaren won the riding’s PC
nomination meeting on March 31 at
Scotiabank Place, knocking off Norm
Sterling, who has served 34 years at
Queen’s Park.
Sterling had federal cabinet minister John Baird and Senator Mike Duffy
in his corner, but came up short in the
voting as roughly 1,500 party members
cast their ballots.
“I’m not shocked,” Sterling said after
the results were announced, shortly
before 10 p.m. “I’m somewhat relieved
it’s over. It’s not the end of the world.”
Sterling said he was hamstrung during the campaign to sign up supporters in the riding nomination battle. He
complained that he had to do his work
as an MPP and run a campaign at the
same time.
While the evening’s vote count
wasn’t officially released, Sterling said
the difference was “about 100 votes.”
“We didn’t have the resources,”
Sterling said, adding that he asked the
party to push the nomination meeting
back to a later date but was rebuffed.
The veteran MPP criticized MacLaren’s politics, saying “the party doesn’t
want to go that far right, particularly
in the urban areas.”
MacLaren is a resident of West Carleton and a former president of the
libertarian Ontario Landowners Association. He campaigned for more
than a year for the PC nomination, encouraging supporters to buy the party
memberships that made them eligible
to vote tonight.
“It’s not hard to understand what
we’re about,” MacLaren said after the
victory. “It’s the Rob Ford lesson,” he

said, referring to Toronto’s new mayor. “Be true to what people are looking
for.”
MacLaren said that if elected to
Queen’s Park in October, he’s ready to
work with other Progressive Conservatives, including the ones who openly
campaigned for Sterling.
“We won fair and square,” he said.
“There won’t be any ill will.”
During Sterling’s concession speech,
he suggested his political career may
not be at an end, but declined to expand on that statement.
“I’ll think that over tonight,” Sterling said, “and I’ll decide tomorrow.”
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Speeches by both candidates preceded the voting. Both men were cheered
on arrival and supporters waved
Norm and Jack signs before and after
they spoke.

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Neither candidate took direct aim
at the other, but the contrast was clear,
with Sterling reinforcing experience
as the key, and MacLaren focused on
smaller government and less regulation.
Sterling was introduced by Ottawa
West-Nepean MP Baird.
“As we prepare for an election … we
need Norm Sterling’s experience at
Queen’s Park,” Baird said.
Sterling cast himself as a friend of
rural voters, even endorsing a plank
of MacLaren’s campaign by expressing strong support for property rights.

Sterling also spent time bashing the
current McGuinty government while
running through a list of local accomplishments, such as upgrades at
the Queensway Carleton and Almonte
hospitals.
The incumbent MPP reminded
members they could trust his experience.
“I have the experience, knowledge
and desire to change how parliament works and how the civil service
works,” Sterling said.
MacLaren took the stage, drawing
louder cheers and applause than Sterling. He talked about his rural roots
and his background in business and
agriculture.
MacLaren bashed elected representatives who “toe the party line” instead of voting in their constituents’
interests. He also turned Sterling’s
experience against him and left little
doubt who he was alluding to when he
criticized broken promises.
“I am not a career politician,” MacLaren said. “I am not experienced at
saying one thing and doing another.”
HUDAK COMMENTS
PC leader Tim Hudak issued a press
release little more than an hour after
MacLaren’s victory, congratulating
the newcomer on his nomination.
“As part of a strong PC team, Jack
MacLaren will deliver change for hardworking families who need real relief
and a chance to catch up,” Hudak said
in the release.
The PC leader also published thanks
to Sterling for his time as MPP, a position Sterling will hold until the Legislature is dissolved prior to the Oct. 6
provincial election.
“Norm’s commitment to public service and Ontario families is largely
unparalleled in Canadian politics today,” Hudak said in a press release.
“Few members of Ontario’s provincial
parliament have ever been able to say
they’ve earned the trust and respect
of their community to have successfully served them for nine consecutive
terms in office, for eight party leaders
and four Premiers of Ontario in nine
different Cabinet portfolios.”

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Even though more than half of respondents told the city they didn’t want
biweekly garbage pickup, the city is moving forward with a plan to do just that.
Although it may be unpopular, it is an
investment in sustainability and protecting the environment, according to the
city.
On April 11, the city’s environment
committee will be voting to change
the way your garbage is collected. The
changes will focus on encouraging single-family homes to use green bins to recycle organics.
Under the new plan, green bins, which
would contain much of a household’s
smelly waste, would be picked up every
week. Recycling bins would be picked
up every week, alternating between blue
(glass, aluminum and plastics) and fibres
(paper and cardboard).
Anything left over that has to be placed
in a garbage bag would only be picked up
every two weeks.
According to a city report, only 22 per
cent of residents who responded to a survey said they preferred that model. Fiftyone per cent said they were against reducing garbage collection to a biweekly
schedule. Just over 2,000 residents were
consulted.
But that’s no reason to reject the idea,
said Dixon Weir, the city’s general manager of environmental services.

More importantly, he said, the changes
can have a positive impact on the environment by encouraging people to recycle their organic waste instead of throw
it in the trash – and that can also save the
city money.
“Our recommendation, we feel, provides the best advantage to the city on
many fronts – on financial, on environmental (fronts),” Weir said.
The total savings would be $54 million,
or $9.1 million each year until the city’s
next waste collection contract would end
in 2018.
That only translates to $29 in savings
for a typical home each year, when both
the rate- and tax-supported costs of waste
collection are considered.
But the changes would also save the
city – and taxpayers – in the long run because it would extend the lifespan of the
Trail Road landfill by about two years,
Weir said.
The switch would push the city’s organics diversion rate up by 50 per cent
(about 40,000 tonnes). The city currently
collects about 20,000 tonnes of organic
waste.
The new plan would also reduce the
number of trucks the city would need
to refuel and maintain by about 20 to 25
vehicles, which would cut down on the
wear and tear on roads at the same time.
Some councillors had concerns about
the public consultation process after
they were briefed on the changes on
March 30.

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On April 11, Ottawa
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“I am concerned about timing,” said
Coun. Diane Deans (Gloucester-Southgate). “There is nothing more fundamental to my residents than garbage,” she
said, adding that the public consultation
(which took place April 5 and 6) was too
short and there were no meeting locations near her ward.
Knoxdale-Merivale Coun. Keith Egli
and Rideau-Vanier Coun. Mathieu Fleury were also disappointed in the short
turnaround.
The new collection system would start
on June 1, 2012 if full council approves it
on April 13.
Weekly garbage collection for multiresidential buildings would continue for
at least another year because the green
bin is only available for single-family
homes. The city is starting up a multiresidential green bin pilot project in 10
buildings this year.
The city’s current bylaw limits households to putting out three bags of trash
each week, which would mean households could put out six bags every two
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The city is also considering extra allowances for people worried about the
smell of diapers and incontinence products if they are only to be picked up biweekly.
City staff is proposing a diaper-collection program that people could sign up
for online using the future Service Ottawa system.
But the idea may prove to be unpopular around the council horseshoe.
“We could decide not to do the diaper
service,” said River Ward Coun. Maria
McRae, the chair of the environment
committee. “
The diaper pick-up service would not
increase the city’s costs and it would operate on the honour system. Some municipalities have tried requiring clear
bags for similar services, but McRae said
she doesn’t think Ottawa should go to
those “draconian measures.”

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residents how to cut down on
leakage, smells and maggots in
their green bins, issues that have
kept a number of people from using the organic recycling bin.
Using boxes, newspaper and
cartons to hold watery or greasy
waste can help cut down on leaks,
which will keep maggots at bay.
“It’s the wet stuff on the outside
that attracts them,” she said.
“I did it in the summer. I haven’t
had any maggots yet. We have to
help people; what’s the easiest
way to do it.”
However, Hubley said the green
bin program needs changes before a program like biweekly garbage collection is put in place.
“The bin is too small to be your
only way to get rid of that stuff,”
he said.
“The program has to be modified somehow.”
The proposed garbage changes
would see around 25 fewer garbage trucks on the road.
The recycling trucks would be
outfitted to handle both green bin
and blue or black box recycling
each week, with an additional
truck for garbage every two
weeks, said Wilkinson.

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The Queensway is set to be widened from Nicholas Street to the 174 split.

The long-awaited widening of the Queensway and funding to bring more students
to colleges and universities are some of
the ways Ottawa will feel the effects of the
province’s 2011 budget.
On March 29, Ontario Finance Minister
Dwight Duncan presented a budget that
will stay the course in the lead-up to the
fall provincial election. With no big cuts
to service or major increases in taxes, the
provincial budget is designed to ruffle few
feathers as Ontario prepares to head into
the election.
For Ottawa, the big news is a commitment to move forward with the widening
of Highway 417 between downtown (Nicholas Street) and the 174 split.
The project is meant to support Ottawa’s
transit plan by providing an extra lane in
each direction that will be dedicated to buses during the conversion of the bus Transitway to light rail. After the completion of
the LRT line, the bus lanes would be turned
into high-occupancy vehicle (HOV) lanes.
Provincial infrastructure minister Bob
Chiarelli (MPP for Ottawa West-Nepean)
said he will be announcing more details
about the project in the coming weeks, but
Ottawa Mayor Jim Watson confirmed that
construction would start in 2012. Preliminary design work and environment studies should get underway this year, Watson
said.
“The important thing from our perspective is it allows us to start planning for the
process … of the LRT construction from
2013 to 2018,” he said.
Chiarelli said the project will be done in
phases for safety reasons.
“It’s a high-priority project,” Chiarelli
said.
MONEY FOR COLLEGES, UNIVERSITIES
Also in the budget, Ontario will provide
$64 million in 2011-12 growing to $309 million in 2013-14 to create an additional 60,000
post-secondary spaces for students, and
with four colleges and universities, Ottawa
could see a good portion of that funding.
“I fully expect that the four post-secondary institutions – five, if you include St.
Paul (University) – will be accessing those
funds to a greater or lesser degree depending on their needs,” Chiarelli said.
“In a knowledge-based economy such as
ours, we need to open the doors to as many
people as possible,” the mayor said.
Duncan Watt, Carleton University’s vice

president of finance and administration,
said the multi-year announcement provides predictability and stability to allow
the university to make long-term plans.
“It also sends a strong signal in terms of
the important role that post secondary education plays in the future prosperity of the
Ontario economy,” he said.
While Algonquin College president Bob
Gillett said he looks forward to the province’s upcoming five-year plan for post-secondary funding, the budget announcement
means “…at least we can now make a start
in allowing some of those students to get
here,” Gillett said.
The province’s plan to “upload” the costs
of certain programs continues, and Ontario municipalities will see $3.07 billion this
year, up from $2.66 billion in 2010. Ottawa’s
share of that was about $25 million this
year, which city council dedicated to adding additional programs such as $14 million for affordable housing in Ottawa and
offsetting higher tax increases.
The province is “uploading” the costs of
running certain social service programs,
such as the Ontario Disability Support Program, to ease the financial burden on municipalities.
The Ontario budget highlighted reforming the public service as a way it would save
money in the coming years. The province’s
bureaucracy will be trimmed by 1,500 positions between April of 2012 and March of
2014. Ontario already committed to cutting
3,400 public-service jobs in the 2009 budget.
That didn’t sit well with the president
of the Ontario Public Service Employees
Union, Warren (Smokey) Thomas.
“As the government admits, Ontario already has the third-lowest program spending per capita among the provinces and the
second-lowest cost for government administration,” Thomas said in a statement sent
out after the budget’s release. “The idea
that we need to cut public services – at a
time when we are giving away billions in
corporate income tax cuts – is ludicrous.”
On the financial side, the provincial deficit is expected to be $3 billion lower than
expected a year ago. That is mainly due to
spending cutbacks to the tune of $2.6 billion compared to what the province forecasted it would spend in 2010-11.
The budget also includes a risk-management program for cattle, hog, sheep and
veal farmers; an addition 90,000 breast-cancer exams targeted at reaching high-risk
women aged 30 to 46 (and adding tests for
women aged 50 to 59); and continuing the
roll-out of the full-day kindergarten program.

“Any time Parliament Hill sneezes, Ottawa catches a cold.”
With that, Mayor Jim Watson described
the impact to the City of Ottawa of changes at the federal level.
With the country now mired in a federal
election, the mayor said he will sit back
and not take sides in local campaigns.
Watson, who has served as a Liberal
MPP and cabinet minister at the provincial level, said the snap federal election
won’t have much of an impact on the city’s
business, but a government town like Ottawa will be abuzz with election talk until
Canadians head to the polls on May 2.
Despite his previous involvement in
party politics, Watson said that as mayor,
it is not his place to take sides in a federal
election.
While he won’t be coming out in support
of any specific candidates, Watson said he
will make his views on the different party
platforms known in terms of how they
could impact the city.
“I think the public expects some insight
from our municipal leaders to ensure that
our interests are taken care of,” Watson
said.
The Conservative government fell on
Friday, March 25 after Members of Parliament voted 156 to 145 in favour of a nonconfidence motion. It was the first time

in Canadian – and Commonwealth – history that a government fell because it was
found to be in contempt of Parliament.
Opposition parties accused the Conservative government of flouting the rules
of Parliament by refusing to fully disclose
the cost of its tough-on-crime agenda,
corporate tax cuts and plans to purchase
stealth fighter jets. The contempt issue
also stemmed from International Co-operation Minister Bev Oda misleading Parliament on the issue of cutting funding to
KAIROS, a religious organization that promotes social change.
The election wasn’t officially called
until the next day, when Prime Minister
Stephen Harper asked Governor General
David Johnston to dissolve Parliament,
making the May 2 election official.
It will be Canada’s fourth election in
seven years thanks to a series of minority
governments.
Let us – and your political leaders
– know what issues matter in your community during this election. Send letters
to suzanne.landis@metroland.com and
tell us what you want to hear from political candidates as you prepare to head to
the polls.
In the riding of Carleton-Mississippi
Mills, the following candidates are registered: Gordon O’Connor (Conservative);
Karen McCrimmon (Liberal); Erin Peters
(NDP); and John Hogg (Green Party).
With files from TorStar News Service.
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ity council needs to recycle its proposal
to reduce garbage pickup to a biweekly
service.
Perhaps it would be more accurate to
say city staff need to rethink this proposal,
because as far as we can tell, this idea did not
come from our elected officials.
The plan calls for the city to collect organic
waste and recycling every week, starting June,
2012, while scaling back garbage pickup to
every other week.
Well, yippee.
The city wants to use biweekly garbage service
as a stick to encourage residents to participate
in its much-criticized green bin program.
A year into the green bin campaign, it has
become clear many residents have decided it’s
too big a hassle to separate organic waste from
their trash.
The program is only handling about a quarter
of its 80,000-tonne capacity.
Staff brought this proposal forward despite a
survey that showed more than half of Ottawa
residents opposed biweekly garbage service.
Yes the city should encourage recycling and the

separation of waste to reduce the pressure to
open a new landfill (even though Waste Management is close to opening a massive new landfill
in Carp anyways).
And yes, waste diversion is an important part
of reducing our reliance on landfills.
But we prefer the carrot approach.
First, there’s been no public consultation on
this plan — here’s a thought, why not educate
the public and listen to their ideas (you know,
the whole annoying democracy concept) before
settling on a plan to radically change an important city service like garbage pickup.
If biweekly garbage service is a good plan it
should hold up under the light of public scrutiny.
As part of its sales pitch, city staff suggest we
can save $9 million by reducing garbage service.
Does this translate into a one per cent reduction
in taxes or will this be absorbed into general
revenue?
If council passes this plan without public
debate, this will serve as another example of
council’s tendency to make important decisions
behind closed doors.

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Winning the right to be left alone

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here’s a story here predicting
that digital books will eventually
outsell the real kind. According
to an article in Fortune magazine, the number of e-readers sold this
year will be 18 million, compared with
900,000 two years ago. The people who
buy those shiny, glowing things will want
electronic books to read on them.
And so it goes. Already, newspaper
book review sections are beginning to
list electronic best-sellers alongside the
traditional ones.There are a number of
ways to look at this. There is the sentimental way, which you have read many
times already: books feel nice in your
hand, smell good, don’t need batteries
to read etc. But you know, people talked
about quill pens the same way, and typewriters, when the personal computer
started to arrive. They talked about 78
records and 45 records and 33 1/3 records
and even cassette tapes.
None of this stopped the next thing
from coming along.
Another way of looking at it is from
the economic point of view, and here
the jury is still out. Some of the people
selling e-readers will make money. Probably, the sellers of e-books — which are
not necessarily the booksellers we now

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know — will make money. Right now,
writers worry that they may not make
money, because an entirely new set of
royalty rules is coming into being.
But perhaps it will work out. That will
make environmentalists happy, or at
least some of them, because not so many
trees will die to make the paper that
traditional books are printed on. Mind
you, there’s a lot of plastic to be used up
making the e-books.
From your point of view and mine,
perhaps the most important question
about any new technology is this: Will
it be annoying? And here, the ebook
passes with flying colours. If there’s an
e-book in the room, it won’t annoy you.
If there’s an e-book sitting next to you on
the bus, it won’t annoy you.
So that’s good. It shows that some new
technology can be unobtrusive. The best

can even create more private space. The
same cannot be said of much of the old
technology.
I did a round trip to Toronto last week.
The way down was on the train. It was
quiet. No muzak, no screens. People read
books, real or e-, tapped on computers,
listened to iPods. Nobody bothered anybody else. That was nice. New technology allowed people to amuse themselves
without bothering other people.
The way back was on the bus, because
there had been a train derailment. Nice
bus, friendly driver, good service, quick.
Except that a movie was projected on
the screens overhead for our enjoyment.
That would have been possible to ignore,
but the sound was projected for our
enjoyment as well. So those of us who
wanted to amuse ourselves by reading a
book or newspaper, not to mention those
of who wanted to sleep, had to fight our
way past the movie soundtrack.
By and large, were the bus passengers
grateful that there was a movie? Would
they have complained if there had not
been one? I don’t know. Obviously, the
bus company feels a need to amuse the
passengers, and it is not alone. It is difficult to enter any public space without
something blaring at you.

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The comforting thought is that it may
pass. As more and more people carry
their own amusement systems with
them — their music, their books, their
computers, their smartphones — the big
screen and the blaring music become
redundant. Life in the restaurant and on
the bus and in the gym becomes more
liveable.
Now, other things become redundant
as well, such as conversation with
strangers and looking out the window at
the scenery, but we may have lost them
long ago. In return, we regain the ability
to be left alone, no small blessing in a
noisy age.

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Letters

Take a close look
at bus changes
To the editor,
People who rely on transit or
have family members who do,
should take a close look at the
proposed OC Transpo bus route
changes for our community.
Kanata users face large changes to their network. Those changes can be found at http://www.

Write to us at
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proposals.
Network changes can save
money, but this must always be
weighed against the cost. I am
concerned people who have difficulty walking or are uncomfortable walking long distances late
at night will find it more difficult
to use the buses because there
will no longer be a bus near their
homes in the evening and on
weekends.
I am also concerned for Glen
Cairn and Katimavik express riders who will have to walk further
to stops and may have problems
with overcrowding as the three
express routes serving our neighbourhoods are merged into one.
Another significant issue for
people who work in the Kanata
Research Park in Kanata North,
and live in Bridlewood, is the proposed removal of route 169.
People have a chance to provide
feedback on the proposed changes by completing the customer
feedback form that appears with
each change on the OC Transpo
website.
Aaron Helleman
Kanata

To the editor,
George Orwell introduced us
to the Ministry of Misinformation in his book 1984 and now
Ottawa has unveiled their version of the concept with their approach on garbage. This reflects
another concept exposed therein
of “doublethink.” How else can
we accept the approach Mayor
Jim Watson has adopted with the
proposed reduction in service of
garbage pickup and the autocratic approach of Maria McRae?
McRae’s approach is that we
must use the green bin even if we
do not want them. Not one word
was said about this during the
election and I challenge her to
resign her post and run again for
election based on her fiat.
The proposal is to reduce normal garbage collection to once
every two weeks and promote
the detested green bin program
to a weekly pickup. This must be
“doublethink” because it seems
illogical to reduce the one service
that 100 per cent of the people use
and replace it with a program favoured by only 40 per cent of the
citizens.
The rush to implement the
program with little time for consultation took even a green supporter like Diane Deans aback.
“Two weeks is not the approach
we should take on such an important service.” There is not
even enough time to have the
local papers notify the public.
Once again the city has ignored
just what a core service is. As Mr.
Hubley said the people who pay
taxes must have a say in such an
important decision.
The reason for the bizarre approach becomes a little clearer
when the bureaucrats tell us they
can save $8 million a year – the
introduction of the green bin
costs us $15 million yearly with
an unbelievable term of 20 years.
In essence, we should suffer so
that the people who invented
this problem can look a little less
guilty.
George Orwell would be tremendously proud to see his vision implemented by our new
mayor. As one commentator said
on Wednesday, “With the bus
situation and the garbage issue
it looks like his honour’s honeymoon time is over.”
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“We called it Beauty is…,” said Aureana.
jessica.cunha@metroland.com
“We left it up to people to determine what
beauty is to them.”
Grade 8 students at Castlefrank ElemenThe class has been busy working on this
tary School have decided to put on a fashyear’s Entrepreneurial Adventure event,
ion show to combat poor self esteem and
sponsored by the Learning Partnership of
body image.
Canada, once a week since the New Year,
The event will raise money for the
said Robertson.
Hopewell Eating Disorder Centre in OttaThe students put together a film which
wa, which offers support, information and
features the different grades answering
hope to anyone affected by eating disorders
what beauty means to them.
while also promoting prevention by helpThose putting together
ing people to understand
the fashion show also had
eating disorders and the
to visit local businesses
importance of healthy atto ask for sponsorship
titudes towards body im– something that was not
age, eating and physical
We’re
going
to
need
always easy, said Nick.
activity.
But everything is com“We did research on
that kind of support.
ing together in time for
statistics,” said Grade 8
the big event.
student Aureana Milne.
“We’re going to raise a
What
they
found
• Nick Banyard lot of money,” said Aureshocked them, she said.
ana. Their goal is $3,500,
Children as young as five
and to date they’re just
are starting to diet and
under half way there.
dress a certain way in an
Resource teacher Wenattempt to fit in to socidy Hyde, who has been helping Robertson’s
ety’s standards.
class with the project, said she thinks the
“We expected that in teens,” said Aurestudents in the class have changed many of
ana. “But they’re in kindergarten. It’s altheir opinions on beauty.
most impossible to comprehend.”
“I think this experience as a whole has
Nick Banyard said boys also receive preschanged that for a lot of people,” said Hyde
sure to look a certain way.
as Aureana and Nick nodded their head in
“Really it’s all about how much you work
confirmation.
out or how thin you are,” said the Grade 8
Beauty is…will take place on April 14
student. “Most of the time they won’t even
at 6:30 p.m. at Castlefrank. Tickets are $5 a
look at your face.”
person, $12 for three or four, and $15 for five
So the students in Barb Robertson’s class
people or more. To order tickets, contact
came up with the idea of having a fashion
the school at 613-592-8071.
show to capitalize on the fact that not ev“It’s going to be hilarious,” said Aureeryone looks a certain way, that beauty is
ana. “It’s just for a good cause; it’s going to
many different things – not just what socibe fun.”
ety says is beautiful.
“It’s a good cause, a rising issue,” added
The show, which they called Beauty is…,
Nick. “We’re going to need that kind of
will showcase a number of different looks,
support.”
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for the students we have in our schools.â&#x20AC;?
The school board was given its general funding
information on March 31. By early May Clarke
said he hopes to put forward a 2011-2012 budget
proposal for trustees to approve.

Rene Faucher said he is worried about going back to work
without the option of commuting
by his current express bus.
Faucher, who lives in a section
of Beaverbrook currently serviced by the 65 express route, was
involved in a hockey accident
last year that put him in a wheelchair.
Paralyzed from the neck down,
he’s regained some of his mobility and doctors have said they
expect he could be walking with
assistance by next year.
But right now he’s worried
about being able to fit on an already overcrowded 60 express
bus with his wheelchair if the 65
route is pulled.
“The 60 is full by the time it
gets there,” said Faucher. “It’s
about the load factor; if the bus is
already full, I can’t get on.”
Residents voiced their frustration over OC Transpo’s route
optimization proposal and the
many cuts facing the bus system
in Kanata: further walks to bus
stops, the loss and merging of express routes, minimal to no local
evening and weekend service on
certain runs and the prospect of
more transfers.
Over 200 people packed themselves into Hall A at the Kanata
Recreation Complex for the OC
Transpo open house meeting
about the proposed route changes
on Wednesday, March 30.
EXPRESS ANGER
“A lot of people will be walking more than 800 metres,” said
Kanata North Coun. Marianne
Wilkinson. “They are making
them (bus stops) very long distances away.”
The biggest losers would be
the people who currently rely on
Route 65, which is proposed to be
removed entirely.
People who live on the side
streets off Knudson Drive between Campeau Drive and Westlock Way, and those who live off
Leacock, Varley and Penfield
drives would have a fairly lengthy
walk to catch either the 60 or the
68.
OC Transpo staff said the 65 is
being cut due to low ridership.
“They said it’s inconveniencing 200 people,” said Wilkinson.
OC Transpo manager Alain
Mercier said the changes have
been proposed based on actual
ridership data collected from automatic counters installed on the
buses.

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It was standing room only at the OC Transpo open house meeting at the Kanata Recreation Complex on Wednesday, March 30.
“We’ve been collecting that
data for years,” he said.
“It’s not counting the people
left at the curb,” said a resident.
Wilkinson said she is trying to
work out a deal with OC Transpo
to see the 65 put back into service
with a different route.
“There wouldn’t be as many
65s but at least having some
would help,” she said, adding that
OC Transpo has agreed to go over
her proposals for the area but in
order to keep certain services
others will have to be cut to keep
costs at the same level.
“They’ve already promised me
to make some changes but the 65
is going to be a tough sell,” she
said.
In the south end of Kanata, the
62, 63 and 64 are proposed to be
merged and streamlined, leaving
people upset they will be losing
their present service.
“My route is gone,” said Katimavik resident Jennifer Ryan
who currently takes the 62 downtown every day. “My section
doesn’t get serviced anymore.”
Instead, she said it’s going to
be easier and quicker for her to
walk to the 96 stop.
“I won’t take an express anymore,” said Ryan.
LOCAL SERVICE LOSS
A big concern for parents is
the proposed loss of local evening
and weekend runs.
With service recommended
to stop at 8 p.m. with one or two
additional late-night runs at unknown times, it would put parents in a tough spot, said Nancy
Blackburn, who lives in Katimavik.
Her son, age 17, and daughter,
age 21, rely on the local route 161

to get home after visiting friends
and to get places on weekends.
Under the route optimization
plan, the 161 would stop running
at 8 p.m. with one or two latenight runs and no service on the
weekends.
It’s about a 30-minute walk
home from the closest 96 stop,
she said. She’s worried about her
kids having to do that walk late at
night.
“That’s my concern,” said
Blackburn. “What do I do, not let
my kids out?”
Stittsville resident Shirley
Mosley said she’s concerned for
her granddaughter, who works
at the Bayshore Shopping Centre
and often isn’t off work until after 8 p.m.
Mosley said there is no way
she’s going to let her granddaughter hang around Bayshore Station
waiting for a late night run.
“It ain’t going to happen,” she
told OC Transpo staff. “This is so
unfair to the teenagers.”
Transit commission chair
Coun. Diane Deans told the audience the plans are not set in
stone but that there is a financial
threshold OC Transpo has to operate under.
“We have to keep it affordable,”
she said.
Kanata South Coun. Allan
Hubley said the city has a responsibility to help teenagers and
youth who rely on the bus system
on evenings and weekends.
“Part of that is not asking
them to walk home at 11 o’clock
at night because there’s no bus,”
he said. “We need to ensure they
don’t lose their mobility. The late
trips for example: we have to get
the people who are working retail. We have to be able to get people back to their homes.”

He said the big challenge for
that is there isn’t any money budgeted for weekend runs for the
local 161. He added he’s hoping to
offset those costs by implementing the park-and-ride at Scotiabank place.
“We’ll get more passengers on
the bus which means added revenue,” said Hubley, adding the
money could be used to help offset the costs of running buses on
the weekend.
“Together with (Stittsville)
Coun. (Shad) Qadri we’ve been
pushing this,” said Hubley. “We
know the Senators group is looking for ways to help their community as well.”
TRANSFER TIME
Wilkinson added she is trying
to get the 182 to service a section
of the Kanata North business
park that the new route 93 will
not serve.
She said workers from a printing company on Hertzberg Road
use the 182 to get to work. With
the proposed changes, the workers will face around a one kilometre walk to work from the new
bus stop.
“They’re trying to handle the
business park and residents at
the same time,” said Wilkinson.
“It doesn’t work.”
Residents wanted to know why
the 93 won’t stop at Terry Fox Station; instead it would go to Bayshore Station.
Wilkinson said even after
changes have been made to the
proposal the 93 likely will not go
to Terry Fox Station, but people
will have the opportunity to
transfer to the 164 or 168 in order
to reach the Centrum.
“There will be a transfer but

they can still do it.”
TRANSIT WORKSHOP
Wilkinson held a workshop on
Monday, April 4 to work with residents on where changes should
be made to the bus proposals.
Around 20 people turned out to
voice their concerns and offer
suggested changes.
“There are some ideas that are
quite useful,” said Wilkinson after the meeting. “A lot of small
little changes can make a big difference.”
One of the changes she’d like to
see happen is having the 93 start
and end at Lincoln Fields Station
instead of the proposed Hurdman and Lebreton stations.
The money saved from a
shorter route could be used to
reinstate the 65, she said, which
would run in the reverse to the
current route and pick up passengers along Campeau Drive.
The 68 route would be modified
so it could hit the Terry Fox Station and provide an express bus
at the Centrum stop.
She said she’s confident at least
some of the changes she proposes
to OC Transpo will be adopted.
“I’m pretty sure I’ll be successful with some of them,” said the
councillor. “We’ll see if we can
put together a package that will
work.”
The sweeping changes are
aimed at trimming $19.5 million
from the bus company’s operations. A total of $22 million in
savings is expected by next year
thanks to other efficiencies.
The final route-change proposals will be released April 13 and
voted on by city council on April
20. They would come into effect
Sept. 4.

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A Dunrobin businesswoman and
single mother is left with an empty
shop and hefty bills to pay after
city bureaucrats sent her a lengthy
series of mixed messages.
Abaco Cakes and Catering owner
Tanja Blondin expanded her home
business by opening a storefront
in the Dunrobin strip mall about
a year ago. City staff accepted the
money she paid for various fees,
and knew the details of plans she
had to open a business that included cooking and baking.
Before buying the business licence, Blondin said she was told
what equipment she would need.
She asked if she would need a commercial range and was told ‘no.’
City staff said to ‘go ahead and
open and it’ll be straightened out,’
she said. So she went ahead.
The health inspector OK’d everything. The fire marshal said a
household range with a suppression system was good enough. The
building inspector disagreed, saying she had to upgrade to commercial standards, which would set her
back $20,000.
No bank would top up a business
loan by that amount so soon after
inking a deal, Blondin said. The
only alternative would have been
to limit herself to selling baked
goods.
“I told him if I can only bake in
here I can’t make it,” Blondin said.
“I’d have to shut down. He said
nothing. What can he say?”
The doors closed and four employees were tossed out of work.
At that point, had she called
West Carleton-March Coun. Eli ElChantiry, he might have been able
to help her.
“She has to call me before I can
find out the problem,” El-Chantiry
said. “I can’t help her if I don’t
know what is going on.”
Blondin wasn’t aware that in
circumstances similar to hers, an
effective city councillor can sometimes find a middle ground that
satisfies all parties.
“No one told me I could call Eli
and get this all solved,” she said.
“I don’t know what to do now. I already sold all my equipment to pay
the rent.”
Blondin, a single mom to an 11
and 14-year-old, has leased the store
for another two years. At $1,700 a
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She is back to working at her
business from home, which she did
for 12 years before making the leap
up to a storefront. So her existing
client list is strong. But beyond
that, she is at a loss.
“It is something I had to learn to
live with,” Blondin said.

The Catholic school board is looking for
help from the community in naming the
new elementary school in Kanata North.
The school, which is set to open this September, will take students from St. Isidore
and Georges Vanier Catholic elementary
schools.
“At this point in the process we ask the
community, the parents for input and suggestions,” said Jane Hill, the appointed
principle of the new school, which will
be located at 400 Keyrock Dr. in Kanata
Lakes.

The new school is going to be a technology-centered and green school equipped
with solar panels, said Hill, who is currently the principle of St. Anne Catholic
School in Bridlewood.
Hill said the proposed name should reflect the Catholic identity of the school. A
brief summary about the reasons for the
suggested name should also be included.
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A new French public school
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The Eastern Ontario French
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parents, the school’s new staff, students and politicians to celebrate
the official opening of MauriceLapointe French public school.
“Today’s ceremony marks the
conclusion of a major joint project aimed at offering high-quality,

French-language education to students in
the expanding community of KanataSouth,” stated board chair Georges Orfali.
The ceremony was also attended by
Madeleine Meilleur, Ontario Minister Responsible for Francophone Affairs, MPP
Yassir Naqviand Carleton-Mississippi
Mills MPP Norm Sterling.
The school’s approximately 150 students, along with staff members, moved
into the new facilities at 17 Bridgestone
Drive in Kanata on Feb. 22.
The school is named in honour of Maurice Lapointe, who attended the school’s
opening, a key figure in the Franco-Ontarian community and the education sector in Ontario.

During the ceremony, Lapointe declared himself deeply touched by this
sign of esteem on the part of parents, students, and the school board.
“A school is a life environment; a place
where what is best in students is developed
a lifestyle steeped in human values just as
much as it is by intellectual growth. We
can already see that here,” said Lapointe.
The new school is crossing new ground
with the introduction of iPads and other
technologically-advanced teaching tools.
“The wireless network will let us see if
this new approach provides students with
tools allowing them to improve their academic results and motivates them further,”
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At first glance it looks like just another day at the curling rink.
There’s the camaraderie among
friends, the banter and good-natured
ribbing throughout, and, of course, a
few cold ones afterwards.
But it’s what goes on in between on
the sheet of ice that makes a Wednesday afternoon at City View Curling
Club so unique.
Members of the Ottawa Blind Curlers have taken to the ice every mid-

week afternoon for the past few winters at the old Nepean facility, just as
they did on March 23.
Teams are split up based on players’ ability and amount of eyesight
and away they go.
But aside from the nuances and
amount of time it takes to play the
sport without vision, the curling experience remains the same.
First at the scene, as always, is
Kanata’s Peter Henry – a player who
is completely blind – with his guide
dog right beside him. Henry makes a
point of turning all the chairs around

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can face each other and chat instead
of facing a blank sheet of ice.
“If they don’t like it, that’s their
problem,” he said with a laugh, noting that the chairs are always back in
their initial place whenever he gets
there each week.
Fresh off a trip to the Ontario Blind
Provincial Curling Tournament in
Oshawa, Ont., Henry was raring to
go.
The provincials didn’t go according to plan for Henry – whose rink
consists of skip Joseph Wirvin, fellow Kanata resident and third Alan
Farough and second Tad Skalski – as
he failed to capture a third-straight
gold medal in the recreational division after a 1-2 round-robin record.
He was trying to correct the line
and weight of his stones at City View,
to limited success.
“It gets frustrating when I’m not
doing well,” Henry said, who cannot
sweep because of liability issues. “If
I’m not getting them in play, I’m not
helping the team.”
“They’re really competitive,” Maurice Lachance added. “They’re just
like you and me.”

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‘I probably get more
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Lachance is a coach who is
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He heard about blind curling
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“You feel that you’re doing
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For those with no vision like
Henry and Roger Gervais, Lachance will have to stand behind them and line them up
initially.
Because of the delays, the

teams play six ends as opposed
to eight in most recreational or
high-school games or 10 in the
pros. Games usually last a couple of hours because of all the
constant communication and
travel across the ice to see the
stones in the house.
“I wouldn’t be able to do it
without the coaches,” Gervais
said. “They line us up. We all
throw differently.”
In contrast with Henry’s
more compact delivery, Gervais
uses his whole body to forcefully shoot the stone down the
sheet of ice.
Ending with his high leg kick,
Gervais of Orleans was the
lead of a team along with skip
Bill Moharmann-Watson, third
Ryan Van Praet and second Michael Hunsley that finished in
second place in the competitive
division at the provincials.
Gervais, who lost his eyesight
when he was 19, decided to try
the sport in 1993 when a friend
twisted his arm.
Now as another year wraps
up, he said he wished the season would continue on into the
summer – or someone would invent a curling rock with roller

skates.
“I wouldn’t want to miss
this for anything,” he said. “I
wish it would last another two
months.”
The coaches certainly do too.
Because guides are often required to give honest advice to
both teams during a match, they
have the best view while watching all the players struggle to
make some tough shots.
“I give the best strategies to
both teams so they can beat the
heck out of each other,” Barry
McIntyre said, who coached
the competitive team at the provincials and guided the teams
through the friendly competition on March 23.
But after it’s all said and
done, the players are more than
willing to give it right back to
their mentors over a few beers
– a tradition everyone hopes to
continue every few weeks in the
upcoming summer.
That’s where the blind curlers have the upper hand.
“I say, ‘Guys, I have to drive
home,’” Lachance said. “They
say, ‘Well we do too, but we just
tell the bus driver where to drop
us off.’”

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Ottawa has been selected to be
among six cities that will play
host to the 2011 Subway Super
Series, a sixgame
clash
between the
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players from
the
Canadian Hockey
League and
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of Russian junior-age playJeff Hunt
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67’s will play
host to Game 3 of the series on
Thursday, Nov. 10 the Ottawa
Civic Centre.
“We are very excited and
we think its going to be a very
good show,” said 67’s owner Jeff
Hunt.
He said the event will mark the
return of international junior
hockey to Ottawa after the 2009
World Junior Hockey Championships, which included games
hosted at the Civic Centre.
“We think it will be very popular with fans who now know what

world class junior hockey can be
like,” he said. “And I think the
fans will be very supportive.”
The series is a key part of the
identification process for Hockey
Canada as it assembles its squad
for the World Juniors, which will
be played in Edmonton and Calgary starting on Dec. 26.
This past year, the Russians
won the series for the first time
in the event’s eight-year history.
“We look forward to bringing
the subway Super Series to Canadian Hockey League arenas next
November,” CHL President David Branch said in a statement.
“Following the result of the 2011
World Junior Hockey Championship, the on-ice rivalry between
Canada and Russia is as strong
as ever.”
Last season, the Russian team
emerged with the series win for
the first time in eight years of
this event, winning four out of
six games with 17 players who
would later represent Russia and
win gold at the 2011 IIHF World
Junior Hockey Championship in
Buffalo, N.Y.
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burying hydro wires and only put them
underground at the expense of a property
owner who requests it, the city’s planning
committee recommended last week.
That’s the city’s current practice, and
city staff is recommending the same policy
continues.
That didn’t sit well with Capital Ward
Coun. David Chernushenko, who said he is
worried about the increasing push to “levyize” city services.
“I worry about the number of times I
hear the word ‘levy’ now,” he said. “We’re
saying ‘That would be nice, but let’s make
the community pay for it.’ It’s the fallback
position.”
While Chernushenko said a levy makes
sense in some situations, such as adding
additional features to a community-used
facility such as an arena, forcing residents
to pay for something that benefits the wider
city and visitors is a bad idea.
Another issue is determining who would
be required to pay the levy, Chernushenko
said.
Kanata North residents have firsthand
experience with this, as they are set to begin paying a levy to bury power lines this
year.
Kanata North Coun. Marianne Wilkinson proposed the extra tax on residents in
her ward to bury about 10 poles along the
stretch of road from Goulbourn Forced

Road to Richardson Side Road.
The tax is expected to be an extra $15 to
$18 a year for the next 10 years for homeowners in Kanata north. The amount is
supposed to decrease each year with the
addition of new homes, said Wilkinson.
When the levy was being discussed last
summer, Wilkinson said she wanted to see
the developers pay some of the cost and the
city to change its policy on burying hydro
poles.
“In the developing areas, the developers
should be paying for this as they used to,”
she said. “We should have these things underground at the very beginning.”
Although the city report indicated there
are a number of benefits to burying wires,
including financial impacts, the analysis
found the high cost outweighed the benefits. The practice is low on the city’s list
of priorities for replacing infrastructure,
because there are so many worn-out roads
and other city assets such as recreational
facilities that constantly need repairs.
The cost of burying hydro wires is about
$2 to $5 million – about four to 10 times
more costly than rebuilding a system with
overhead wires.
But even more significant are the potential cost to home- and business owners.
Chernushenko said it would cost each
Glebe business $20,000 to upgrade their systems in order to hook up to a new underground system, if the city went that route.
“That’s where the reality of the cost
hits,” he said.
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ue, said Haynes. Anyone interested in more information can
email Haynes at jenny.haynes@
sympatico.ca. Donations to Connor’s trust fund can be made
at the Royal Bank of Canada
on March Road and Terry Fox
Drive, or at the Stittsville and

Bells Corners branches.
“It’s just proven what a tiny
community can do, the community just pulling together,” said
Haynes. “It was just such a great
night, I’ll never forget it.”

She said the play kept the
audience in stitches the entire
night.
“Everyone was laughing,”
she said. “You couldn’t wish for
anything better, really.”
Fundraising efforts for Connor and his family will contin-

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A fundraiser for a four-yearold boy hosted by Kanata Theatre managed to raise almost
$25,000 on Monday, March 28.
Donations are still pouring
in, said theatre president and
grandmother of the young boy,
Jenefer Haynes, who only expected to raise about $10,000.
“I can’t believe it, I just cannot
believe it,” she said. “We had a
packed house. I was really concerned we’d never be able to sell
out the theatre. We had people
on a waiting list. We couldn’t get
everyone in.”
Haynes grandson Connor, who
the fundraiser was held for, was
rushed to the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario the day of
the event.
“He was very, very ill Monday,”
said Haynes. Connor was in the
intensive care unit last week but
is now back at home continuing
his recovery.
Because of Connor’s medical
situation, his parents, Edward
and Jane, were unable to attend
the event but expressed their
thanks to everyone who donated their time and money to the

event, said Haynes.
“They’re just overwhelmed
with gratitude.”
Connor, who is physically dependant on his family, has been
through a gamut of testing at
CHEO but results for a diagnosis
have been inconclusive. Growing
at the rate of other children his
age, his parents are finding it difficult to carry him up and down
stairs, said Haynes, who lives in
West Carleton.
The money from the fundraiser will go towards helping the
family build a first floor addition
onto their house in Lanark with
a special bedroom and bathroom
for Connor.
“All the money is going into
Connor’s trust fund,” said
Haynes. “The play itself was a
terrific vehicle for such an event.
It all seemed to be just perfect.”
The cast and crew of Kanata
Theatre’s production of Cash on
Delivery gave up their one night
off to host the benefit.
“I think we all felt triumphant;
so fulfilled that they were going
to be helping,” said Haynes. “If
it wasn’t for them giving up their
one night off – the support from
the Kanata Theatre group is just
beyond words.”

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The four-day conference started on Thursday,
March 24 and I was amazed to see over 400 new
faces from all across Canada here in one room in
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Travis Fisch photo and hopes for the weekend.
Stittsville band Plush Garden members Adam Traversy, Greg Higgins,
We branched out into groups where we worked
Skyler Radmore and Shawn Baldwin performed during the Kanata to address issues that the youth of Canada are curHaven Youth Centreâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s photo montage. for Earth Hour.
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After multiple group discussions where we analyzed the contributing factors and possible solutions, we presented recommendations that would
be forwarded to Dr. David Butler-Jones, the chief
public health officer of Canada.
In addition to the thought-provoking workshops
we attended, our youth centre celebrated Earth
Hour by presenting a photo montage of environmental pictures taken by our youth, accompanied
by a live performance from our good friends Plush
Garden.
The local Stittsville band performed their song
Hum of the Earth from their soon-to-be released album to rave reviews and many calls for an encore.
Special thanks to the Rotary Club of Ottawa
Kanata Sunrise for making this opportunity for me
possible.
The Unite and Ignite conference was an inspiring event that strengthened my commitment to
both my youth centre and community by allowing
me to apply the knowledge I learned to address the
broader issues that effect youth today.
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gala on Friday, April 8 at St. Elias Banquet Hall to
help fund the volunteer organization.
Helping With Furniture picks up furniture and
delivers it to refugee claimants. The services are
provided absolutely free to client families and the
organization is 100 per cent volunteer run.
The gala takes place at 750 Ridgewood Dr. Cocktails start at 6 p.m. with a three-course meal to follow. There will be door prizes, a half-and-half draw
and a great silent auction.
Tickets are $50 and are available by phoning Nathalie at 613-612-6228. They will not be available at
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singing until his life was interrupted by the 2003
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family was lost. He became a refugee for two years
in Kenya and then got a scholarship to study in
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Grannies to host annual
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The Grassroot Grannies will host their
annual plant sale and garden show next
month.
The spring event will take place on Saturday, May 7 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at 28
Tiffany Cres., just in time for Mother’s
Day. The fifth annual sale is sponsored
by the Grassroot Grannies.
Choose from a wide selection of quality plants, while visiting two colorful
spring show gardens. Purchase handcrafted garden art, photo cards, exquisite Kazuri jewellery and tickets for
an amazing raffle. A horticulturalist, a
member of the Grassroot Grannies, will
be available, if you would like to consult
her, on plant purchases.
Admission is free but donations to
the Stephen Lewis Grandmothers’ Campaign would be appreciated.
Pay for purchases with cash or cheque
only.
Funds raised will go toward this
Grandmothers’ Campaign in support of
African Grandmothers who are raising
and caring for their grandchildren and
other HIV/AIDS orphans.
On May 7th join us, rain or shine, and
purchase your Mother’s Day gift while
helping the Grandmothers and their orphans.

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Plant and Garden sale on May 7th between
10 a.m. and 2 p.m.
Take some special time for yourself,
bring a friend, relax and enjoy a breath
of spring in two beautiful Kanata gardens.
For further information call Joanne
Williams at 613 592-1646 or Judy Laughton at 613 592-2813.
If you have any extra pots for plants
call Judy Laughton.

Over 130 fortunate youth between the
ages of 13 to 18 from the Ottawa area
boarded chartered coach buses at 4:30
a.m. to begin their journey to the Norfolk
Naval Base, the largest naval base in the
world, in Norfolk, Virginia on March 12.
The cadets were very excited, but they
had no idea what the experience would
bring them once they arrived.
The cadets spent time at Fort Munroe,
learning the history of Norfolk.
They toured the USS George W. Bush
Aircraft Carrier, the USS Wisconsin
Battleship, and got to see, sit in and experience F-18 fighter jets with the Oceana
Fighter Squadron.
Amphibious demonstrations and learning workshops were provided for them, as
well as aviation physiology lectures and
a tour of the aviation training facility.
Some even experienced a flight simulator, and soared through the air at mock
speed.

The cadets visited the Virginia Air and
Space Center, as well as Nautica and the
Hampton Naval Museum.
They saw as many attractions and exhibits as they possibly could in the sevenday whirlwind tour.
The cadets even had time to walk on
the beach and take in the magnitude and
majesty of the sea.
The youth participated in seamanship
training, leadership and citizenship exercises while they were in the Unites
States.
Aside from the daytime naval experiences they were able to swim, go to the
movies, bowl and hold a dance involving five other Royal Canadian Sea Cadet
Corps from Ontario.
Over 120 youth from the Ottawa area all
met in Norfolk Virginia and had a wonderful evening together.
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forget.
We are extremely pleased to report that many Attraction Coordinators from Norfolk have since
emailed or phoned us to say that
our youth were extremely polite,
gracious, helpful and represented
Canada with true Canadian Spirit.
The Royal Canadian Sea Cadet
program is definitely raising our
leaders of tomorrow.
The trip was sponsored by the
Navy League of Canada. The
Royal Canadian Sea Cadet Corps
Centurion parades every Tuesday
night at Connaught Ranges.
For more information or to join
the Canadian Cadet movement
please call 613-993-2968.

Join us on trails, parks and forests around
Ottawa West, Kanata, Stittsville and West Carleton

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Girls from grades 7 to 10 at Holy Trinity Catholic High School got the 411 on
self esteem and bullying issues on Friday,
April 1.
The youth organization 411 Initiative
For Change presented its 411 TV: Girls
production, which works to give girls the
chance to speak out about issues they are
facing, such as sexism, racism, poverty
and body image.
“I was always told that I was fat, that I
needed to lose weight,” said event host Ivy
Prosper, a former model. “It put a lot of
pressure on me.”
Prosper told the students a lot of doctoring goes into professional photographs
used for advertisements in order to make
the model appear perfect.
“I challenge you; be critical of what
you’re looking at,” said Prosper. “Not ev-

erything is real.”
Prosper used examples from her own
life where she faced issues regarding her
self esteem.
She told the crowd how she was interviewed for a job for a shoe design company. A friend who worked in the company
overheard the interviewer say Prosper
was the best candidate for the job but
didn’t want to hire another woman for the
office. Instead, the job went to a less-qualified man.
“It’s something we still have to battle in
our lives,” said Prosper.
‘IT’S AFFECTING SOMEBODY’
Canadian rapper Masia One said it can
be difficult being a girl in a male-dominated industry but that forces her to work
harder.
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the hardships of trying to reconcile two
nationalities. The play, a shorter version
of her one-woman play Fish Eyes, focuses
on an Indian-Canadian high schooler trying to find balance between her home and
school life.
“I wanted to look at being two nationalities in one body,” said Majumdar. She
said she spent much of her teenage life
trying to keep her identities separate.
“We need to celebrate ourselves and
what we bring to the table. When I got out
of high school finally, I realized I wasted
too much time trying to be someone I’m
not.”
411 TV: Girls focuses on domestic issues affecting girls, such as body image,
self-esteem, racism, careers, healthy relationships and bullying. The program
takes the format of a mock live-to-air TV
talk show, mixing video, theatre and music with live interviews to relay positive
images of girls and to offer real-life testimonies from Canadian girls and women.
“We have to stand together,” said Grade
8 student Brianna Tisch,
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One said she has faced criticism from
record labels for not being thin enough;
she has been mistaken as a cameo girl
for a male rapper’s video while in the recording studio; and she said she used to
change the pitch of her voice to sound
like a man’s after recording songs so other
rappers would take her work seriously.
The first female artist to be nominated
for a Much Music Video Award in the rap
category, One discussed the impact of
bullying.
When she moved from Singapore,
where she was born, to Vancouver, she
said she used to get made fun of all the
time – for her clothes, her looks and the
food she brought to school.
As she developed her talent in high
school, One said she then became the
bully.
“Because I got good at certain skills in
high school I went to the other side,” she
said. “It’s a waste of time.”
One also faces cyber bullying. After
posting one of her first videos on YouTube, she noticed a number of harsh
comments in the posting section. However, instead of being critical of her music,
the posters were more concerned with
her appearance and the fact she was a
woman.
“People get real brave behind a keyboard,” said One. “But it’s affecting somebody.”
Canadian actress Anita Majumdar performed a dance-infused skit to explain

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Go plastic-free for a week
KANATA
ENVIRONMENTAL NETWORK
The Kanata Environmental
Network is issuing the Earth
Week Plastic Challenge!
For one week, April 16-22, we
are encouraging residents to
make a special effort to reduce
their use of plastic, especially

Challenge?
The plastic we do use is eventually thrown out and fills our
garbage dumps. Over time the
plastic breaks down into microscopic bits that wind their way
into the water ways, soils, and
food chains. Some of the plastic we use doesn’t make it into
the dump, but is dropped by the

side of a road, where it collects
in storm water drains, streams,
and eventually in the ocean.
We all know we need to use our
resources wisely, and reduce the
waste we leave behind. On April
22, Earth Day, we invite you celebrate our relationship with
home by participating in KEN’s
Earth Week Plastic Challenge.

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The Kanata Environmental Network (KEN) is hosting
a free talk on how to grow an
eco-friendly garden with flowers and shrubs to attract birds,
butterflies, and pollinators at
the Beaverbrook Community
Centre on April 13.
The first speaker, Sarah
Coulber, from the Canadian
Wildlife Federation, will talk
about how to grow beautiful
gardens, reduce rain run-off,
and build soil fertility. We will
learn about which species of
plants are native to the Ottawa
area and thus best suited to the
growing conditions in Kanata.
We will also be looking beyond our gardens into the
nearby woods as we discuss
some invasive plant species
that are taking hold in and
around Kanata.
Our second guest speaker,
Sarah Dehler from KEN, will
help us identify some invasive
plants such as the dog strangling vine, garlic mustard, and
common buckthorn. She will
explain why they are of concern, and what can be done.
The event begins at 7 p.m.
on April 13 at the Beaverbrook
Community Centre, 2 Beaverbrook Road. Full details are
available on the website www.
k a n a t a e nv i r o n m e n t a l n e t work.com.
This is talk is part of KEN’s
activities in preparation of
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• Community Bible Church invites seniors to the “Wise Guys
and Gals Drop-In” for coffee, home baked sweets and featured speaker certified financial planner Richard Yasinski of
Financially Sound. Richard will give a talk covering topics like
long term planning, government benefits, and estate planning. All seniors are welcome, regardless of religious affiliation. Drop-ins are generally slated for the second Monday of
every month and run from 10 to 11:30 a.m. Community Bible
Church, 1600 Stittsville Main St. For info: www.cbcstittsville.
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speaker or theme for future months.

• Friendship through Music, a concert by the Ottawa Hungarian Choir, the Kanata Choral Society and the Choir of St.
John’s South March will be held at 7 pm, St. Paul’s Anglican
Church, 20 Young Rd. Tickets for adults: $15; seniors and
students: $10. Available at the door or by phoning 613-5921991. Please visit www.kanatachoralsociety.ca.

• South March Women’s Institute welcomes you to hear Lyall
Gow speak on “Looking Back on our Local History” at The
Old Town Hall, 821 March Rd. at Klondike. Starts at 7:30 p.m.
Lyall and the Women’s Institute share the same birth year
– 1912. For more info call 613-592-2984.

TUESDAY, APRIL 12
• The Probus Club of Western Ottawa will meet at Kanata
United Church, 33 Leacock Dr., at 10 a.m. Our guest speaker
will be Mr. Doug Rowland, former Member of Parliament and
international election monitor. The topic of his presentation
will be A Decade of Election Monitoring. Contact Don Davis
at 613-592-5509 or view http://www.probuswesternottawa.
org.
• The Ottawa Public Library welcomes Brenda Chapman
and C.B. Forrest to the main library at 7 p.m. for an evening
of author readings and discussion on writing. Governor
General award-winning author Tim Wynne-Jones will be our
special guest interviewer and host for the evening. The Main
Library is located at 120 Metcalfe St. (corner of Metcalfe and
Laurier).

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 13
• All are welcome to participate in a fun fundraiser, Kind
Deeds with Kraft Dinner, hosted by CFUW/Kanata at 7 p.m. at
Stonehaven Manor, 70A Stonehaven Dr., Kanata. The public
is welcome to donate boxes of Kraft Dinner which will be
placed on the floor to make a domino effect and the KD will
be donated to the Kanata Food Cupboard. Contact Catherine
Faubert, publicity convener, CFUW/Kanata at racafaubert@
rogers.com.
• Challenged by charcoal? Laurie, a celebrated Canadian
artist will address papers, supplies and the delights of working in charcoal. Meeting at 7 p.m., at the Kanata Art Club,
1030 Riddell Rd., in Kanata North. Members and guests are
invited. Refreshments will be served. For information call
613-599-4959.
• Come to the open house at Joan of Arc Academy from
9-10:30 a.m., 2221 Elmira Dr., Ottawa. Joan of Arc offers a
bilingual program for girls. RSVP to registrar Hilary Kemsley:
613-728-6364 ext.1007.

celebrate spring. Reception at 5:30 p.m. with dinner at 6.
Entertainment will be provided by the Pamanadance Group.
Drop in at the Kanata Legion or call 613-591-5570 to get
your name on a sign-up sheet. The minimum donation is $10.

SATURDAY APRIL 16
• Spring is in the Air – Crafts Made Just for You! The WOCRCCSS Nepean Crafty Seniors invite the public to their craft sale
which will be held from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Crystal View
Lodge, 6 Meridian Place, Nepean. www.wocrc.ca.
• The Rideau Valley Home Educators’ Association is presenting its 21st Annual Home Educators’ Conference from 8 a.m.
to 5 p.m. at Kanata Baptist Church (465 Hazeldean Rd.).
Seminars will be presented on a wide variety of topics. For
registration forms and further information about the conference, please visit our website at www.rvhea.org

SUNDAY, APRIL 17
The Kanata Senior’s Council presents a field trip to Fiddler on
the Roof at Brockville Arts Centre. Bus will leave John Mlacak
Centre library entrance at 12:15 p.m. and we will be back
by 6 p.m. $40 includes bus fare, excellent seats for the show,
and a bag lunch enroute to the theatre. Call Jill for more
details or to book: 613-599-4633.

UNTIL APRIL 8
The Kilimanjaro Grannies are hosting a fundraising gala
for the Stephen Lewis Foundation which supports the
Grandmothers to Grandmothers Campaign with a dinner, a
viewing of Disney’s The Lion King and chance to meet the
cast and crew at the National Arts Centre on July 14. Tickets
can be purchased until April 8 through the NAC, through the
Kilimanjaro Grannies webpage at www.kiligrannies.com/gala
or by calling 613-832-0859. A children’s matinee fundraising
event is also scheduled for Aug. 4.

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• The March Rural Community Association will devote their
April meeting to a discussion of some of the experiences and
challenges faced by our local farmers. We are keen to hear
from some of our own farmers. Everyone welcome. Bring
your neighbours and your questions. Old Town Hall, 821
March Rd. at Klondike at 7:30 p.m.

The Ladies Auxiliary, Royal Canadian Legion, Branch 638,
Kanata, is holding a special Hawaiian dinner buffet to

The Ottawa Good Food Box is a non-profit program to buy
fresh fruits and vegetables once a month. The cost for a small
box is $10, medium $15, and $20 for a large. Boxes contain a
newsletter with nutritional info, recipes and cooking tips. For
more info and to order please call the distribution site Kanata
Community Christian Reformed Church, 46 Castlefrank Rd.
613- 831-7458 or 613-860-6767 and check the website at
www.ottawagoodfoodbox.ca.

Seniors living across the Ottawa west area have a two-week
multi-activity entertainment
package they can take advantage of courtesy of the Kanata
Seniors Council.
The Far West Fun Fest opens
on May 5 with a kickoff breakfast and closes two weeks later
on May 19.
The program is wide ranging:
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lawn) bridge, walking, aquatics, a casino afternoon, a movie
matinee there’s something for
everyone.
Registration costs $20 (some
events have a small supplementary charge) and runs until

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The package, which includes
details of all events as well as
supplementary charges, may be
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retirement residences as well
as the Kanata Seniors Centre
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“This is a great chance to get
together and have some fun,”
said event co-chair Liz Tucker.
“We’ve tried to come up with a
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one, or two, or more events
they’d enjoy.”
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The coyote killing contests
are all about the campaign being
waged by agriculture to obtain
increased compensation. It is after all an election year.
Never mind that compensation
claims are down by 25 per cent

in Ottawa in 2010. Never mind
that livestock losses due to coyote
predation represent only one per
cent of the numbers of sheep and
0.08 per cent of the numbers of
cattle produced in Ontario.
Pretty insignificant when you
consider that small businesses,
which are as economically challenged as farmers, experience

up to 3% annually in lost profits
due to theft and get absolutely no
compensation from government.
I am not sure what suburban
community MPP Lisa MacLeod is
referring to when she states that
“we’ve had near-crisis levels of
coyotes” but I don’t know of any
crisis that has made the papers in
this area. As for the view of ru-

ral residents, a meeting hosted by
Ms. MacLeod in Osgoode last year
had the majority of speakers saying they were much more afraid
of coyote hunters than coyotes.
This seems to be the continuing view this year judging from
letters from rural residents and
editorials in suburban newspapers across Ontario. One edito-

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rial states “drowning, drunk
drivers and lightning pose immensely greater danger to people
than coyotes do”.
We need less politically-motivated and irrational fear-mongering and more of the common
sense that other major cities
across North America have adopted in living with coyotes.

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